Moana’s route is a story about dreams of a distant land beyond the horizon. Something from the song “Somewhere at the bottom of the big closet lies a sharp knife” We probably won’t swim the entire route of Moana, but we can consider its successive sections and stops as destinations for diving expeditions – enough for a lifetime.
Tangier – a city in present-day Morocco, located at a strategic point in North Africa. A city founded under the Phoenicians (10th century BC). Moana’s crew’s first rubs in hunting in icy water (16 degrees). Their spoils include shrews, moray eels and congeries.
Cape Malabata – the “opposite” side of the Strait of Gibraltar – the place where Moana’s crew rocks crossbow fishing for financial purposes.
Las Palmas – a city and port in the Canary Islands – an Atlantic archipelago west of northern Africa.
Some quotes:
“We finished the hunt having 17 Hawaiian three shreds 4 warblers three Royal fergus one tuna on the spread”.
It seems like an incredible massacre from today’s point of view, but if someone was simply hunting for fish to have something to eat or to sell to a restaurant and have money to travel farther, then that’s how it must have been.
“I had barely drawn my crossbow when I saw the giant stingray, I became immobile in the cavity that the monster fills with its entirety. Sergius and Peter swim up. We are holding a war council. We float above the stingray so as not to cause the fins to ripple or the armed tail to move. We agree to attack simultaneously as soon as Sergei raises his thumb. That’s what we do, too. Shot in the eyes at the head and fins, the stingray is quickly tamed. We drag her to the barge where old Cyprian kills her immediately.
Antilles islands in the Caribbean Sea: Winter in Ford De France (Martinique)
“A restaurant really at the end of the world, when it comes to paying, I’m in for a surprise. It turns out that we are guests here in the fullest sense of the word.
You are with me for the first time said a beautiful black woman
You will pay when you come to us another time.
I insist that she take the money; she just smiles. It’s a waste of words. “I’m the one who decides.
I may never come again, sailing was on the seas.
That’s what you’ll remember me by….”
Pidgeon Islands-now the island-state of Santa Lucia-a rather exclusive island famous these days for its honeymoon hotels with a rather upside-down port authority. At the time of Moana, one of the islands of the Antilles.
The Grenadines – islands with the most famous anchorage Tobago Cays where yachts are constantly at berth in round-the-world itineraries. At the time of Moana a little more desolate and peaceful.
Kingstown – a Caribbean town on the island/state of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean Sea
Becquia – the largest island in the Grenadines in the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean Sea
Quatre Island – lying south of the larger island of Quatre Bequia and north of Canouan Island.
Mustard Island – Martinique area. A beautiful comparison of the fishing capabilities of local boats and sport hunters armed with modern crossbows. The best fishing boat 27 kg, Moana 175 kg.
Cannouan – the first lagoon on the route. 110 kg stingray and a beautiful description of the hunt. A description of an encounter with four sharks attracted by bloody catches. Moana’s poetry immediately followed. Description of beautiful parrot fish. Flowers of the ocean J
Saintes – an island south of Guadeloupe – a duty-free zone, which for vagabonds the rating is very important.
Balboa – Taking off for the immensity of the Pacific. Amazing descriptions of powerful fish in Panama Bay while simultaneously cursing all divers – zero visibility in plankton-fed water by the Humboldt Current.
Galapagos – 800 miles to Galapagos. Darwin’s Bay and hunting? Such were the times. Lots of space few people.
Seymour – islands in the western part of the Galapagos archipelago. Seals, seals, seals.
Conway Bay – the next stop in the Galapagos.
Academy Bay – now a sizable town in the Galapagos archipelago. Then the fishing settlement we all dream of.
Nukuhiwa – The beauty of atolls and the curse of divers – no visibility and no reef. But the farewell flowers were just like in Tahiti.
Manihi – if you look on googles it’s the middle of nothing. The middle of the calm ocean. Crystal water, sharks sleeping on the bottom. Coffee with coconut milk. Can you want anything more. “The fact that we sailed to Manihi can’t be a mistake. It would be a mistake not to sail to Manihi.”
Ahe – another atoll like a fairy tale. Disenchanting descriptions from Heyerdahl’s time. White sand, coconuts and fish.
Tahiti – civilization, however. Port, repairs. The port means problems, money and time. Author’s reflection ” Lagoon, pirogue, typewriter….
Moorea – By typing the next chapters of Moana into Google, we will once again experience this adventure in the remote corners of the ocean.
Samoa Islands – on the foothills of Fiji, a further step in the Pacific spaces.
New Caledonia – on the foreshore of Australia – the Great Caledonian Lagoon is an undersea paradise.
Numea – a port on the great Caledonian reef. It’s a trip to the big Trohus – shells to shore up the expedition’s finances.
The Great Reef – a barrier that stretches for a thousand miles and encloses Australia from the east.
Coral Sea – the sea lying between the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia. Torres Strait. Could there be names closer to the word “Adventure”?
Port Moresby – local newspaper “thirty-eight killed of which seven eaten”
Timor – See Timor and die. A description of the death of one of Alain Gerbault’s adventure hunters. That’s how maybe they shouldn’t or maybe that’s how adventurers should go away.
Red Sea – what is the daily bread of Polish divers i.e. reefs and wrecks of the Red Sea in the book are only mentioned. This is the final route before jumping to the Mediterranean.
Suez Canal – a waterway between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea that is the connection between the Indian Ocean and Europe.
After all this time, are such vaguely exotic names as Rhodes, Piraeus or Naples worth mentioning? J
